Video Challenge: Vote for your favs (3/24/08)

The field of 64 is set, and it's time to set about finding the best sports video on the web.

We have the 6 vs. 11 matchups today, which means the face-offs are getting closer and tougher to pick.

Check the videos out and then vote for your favorites. We're leaving the final say up to you, the readers, so sound off and make your voice heard. Only one sports video can be declared NOLA's best of the web, and it's your call which one gets picked.

May the best video win!

(6) Crazy surf run

There's crazy, and then there's insane. Mike Parsons, famous for surfing huge waves, became even more famous thanks to the emergence of this video, which captured him riding what appears to be an 80-footer. I don't know about you, but riding an 80-foot tall wall of water seems a little insane to me. Maybe it's just me.

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(11) Tag-team dunk

I wish I'd thought of this when I was younger. In a youth league basketball game, two enterprising youngsters decided a lay-up on a fast-break opportunity just wouldn't cut the mustard and put their ingenuity to work so as to really make a splash. Hot dogging in general is sort of lame, but I've got to hand it to anyone willing to go to such lengths to rub it in the faces of their opponents. Well done!

Anybody alive in the '80s knew just what kind of an athletic freak of nature Bo Jackson was, but the hip injury he suffered in a playoff win against Cincinnati in 1991 unfortunately derailed his football career. Jackson lived on in football immortality though, partially in thanks to his superhuman digital alter-ego in Tecmo Super Bowl. This run, brilliantly enhanced by the addition of the "Benny Hill Theme", has become the stuff of Internet legend.

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(11) Baseball Boogie

The 1980s may have given us Bo Jackson, but they also gave us awful music videos performed by famous athletes. The Super Bowl Shuffle was of course the most famous of these (and it was a trailblazer, spawning the rest of them), and while there was a certain ridiculous charm to the Seminole Rap (I see you Deion Sanders), nothing can top the abomination that is the Baseball Boogie. I don't know what the members of the 1986 Los Angeles Dodgers were hoping to accomplish with this video, but they have managed to immortalize themselves as a collection of spastic goofballs.

Major League pitcher Randy Johnson throws the ball hard. How hard? I'd ask this unfortunate-looking bird, but there's just not much of him left.

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(11) Take this shoe and...

We had to include a hockey fight, and this one is a classic. Boston Bruin Terry O'Reilly had a reputation for getting into scrapes, but his journey into the crowd to take on several Rangers fans may have taken the cake. It's one thing to get into a scrum. It's another thing to take that scrum into the stands. But it's an entirely different thing to take a man's shoe and beat him senseless with it. That, my friends, is as good as it gets.

As sports movies go, it's hard to do much better than Caddyshack. Any number of scenes in that movie could have made the cut, so it was difficult coming up with just one. Ultimately, it was a user submission that got the call, partly due to its inherent awesomeness, but also because it really has the quote-ability factor going for it.

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(11) Peyton vs. Bush

Truthfully, there are probably better Peyton Manning commercials out there (given there are so many), but we just couldn't pass on one featuring the Colts star AND Saints running back Reggie Bush. In a true game of one-upmanship, Manning and Bush battle it out to see who can screw the other over worse ... and leave us very entertained in the process. Ultimately, Manning had the last laugh in a big Colts win on opening night, but at least Bush got in a couple of good shots.